Note: dated 19 XI 1901

84.
19/XI 1901
[Munich].

However, am I not pestering you with letters, dear G. V.? It seems I bombard you d a i l y.

I sent you an article "The Contemporary Industrial Crisis."¹) In my view, it's quite passable and could go into issue No. 4 of *Zarya* after minor revisions. Please read it at your earliest convenience in a free moment and give me your opinion. If you approve, we shall put it to print v e r y  s o o n  (in some two weeks²) so that the print shop at Dietz's does not stand idle.

Perhaps Koltsov (Ginzburg) would not refuse to help correct this article, if need be?

On the question of printing documents from the congress "On the majority"³) already five of us have spoken in favor of immediate publication—[Vera] D[mitryevna] Zasulich, Klyuchevfeld, two Berlin members, and myself, that is five out of our nine—six editors and three administrators. That means the question is decided. Let [Boris] A[bramovich] [Koltsov-Ginzburg] hurry as much as possible.

Do you have a spare copy of the Russian edition of "What Next?"⁴) We don't have a single one. Please send it.

Your Frey.

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¹) This concerns an article by Finn-Enotayevsky. The article was evidently not approved by the editorial board of *Zarya*.

²) After the split at the congress of the "Union of Russian Social-Democrats" and on 5 October 1901, when the Iskra supporters left the congress, two organizations—the foreign group of *Iskra* and *Zarya* and the Revolutionary organization "*Sotsial-Demokrat*"—united into a single organization, the "Foreign League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy," while the "*Borba*" group began its separate publishing activity. Immediately upon the formation of the "League," a "Statement on the Union of *Sotsial-Demokrat* and the Foreign Org. of *Iskra* and *Zarya* into the Foreign League of Revolutionary Social-Democracy" was issued, and it was decided to publish the documents concerning the congress work separately as a pamphlet. It came out in December 1901 under the title: "Documents of the Unification Congress." It is this pamphlet that Vladimir Ilyich is speaking about.

³) Plekhanov's article from issues 2–3 of *Zarya*. This concerns a separate edition of this article on thin paper for sending to Russia.